Jamaican Till I Die!

I will never pretend to completely understand human nature or what makes us behave so differently. I will never understand why man commit murders, rape, climb Mount Everest, travel to the moon, run into a burning building to rescue a child or cut out a man’s heart and eat it live on camera. What would make the Hutus slaughter the Tutsis in Rwanda where 500,000 people were killed in the first 100 days of conflict and an estimated 1,000,000 in total murdered or the Germans to slaughter six million Jews and start a war that resulted in over 56,125,262 people killed? But what I do know is that most children live what they learn. I know that how children are raised and socialized contributes to the type of person they will become and I know it will define their value system. Who we are today is as a result of what we learnt as children, the schools we go to, the people we know and the environment we grew up in. Who we are today also depends on the expectations from the people aroun...

There is an older member of my family who is very religious. A bit lonely and getting on in age, he spends a lot of his time going to and from church. Also entertaining various church members at his home. It has reached the point where these church people seems to come and go as they please. This older person seems powerless to do anything about it at times and at other times thankful for their company as he would declare that they are his church brothers and sisters and in his mind that means a lot. It has come to our attention that certain top members of his church are actively trying to transfer the property of this individual into their names. They are trying to get him to sign over his house to the church.The church elders have requested the title to the house and have declared that they have a burial funds, stating that they will ensure that he gets a proper burial when he dies. They have even gone to the trouble of sending over various contractors to measure his house and t...